Xanten train station
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 Reception building of the Xanten train station
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| Location in the network | Terminus |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 1 |
| abbreviation | KX |
| IBNR | 8006630 |
| Price range | 6th |
| opening | 1904 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Xanten |
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| City / municipality | Xanten |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 39 '35 " N , 6 ° 26' 43" E |
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| Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia | |
The Xanten station is a regional station west of the city center of Xanten on the Rheinhausen – Kleve railway line . Since the partial closure in the direction of Kleve in 1990, it has been the final stop on the line that has been in operation since August 15, 1904. It belongs to station category 6.
history
Today's station was opened in 1904 with the Lower Rhine route. Until 1914 it was called the Xanten Staatsbahnhof to distinguish it . From 1921 until the nationalization of the Boxteler Bahn in 1925 it was called the Xanten Reichsbahn . From then on he was called Xanten . Passenger traffic ceased in 1945 could only be resumed from the north in 1947 and from the south in 1948. In 1989 passenger traffic to Kleve was discontinued, and in 1990 goods traffic as well, since then Xanten has been the end of the route.
Originally there was a second older station in Xanten, which is no longer used today, the later station Xanten West . It was put into operation in 1878 and was used by the (initially) privately operated Boxteler Bahn of the Noord-Brabantsch-Duitsche Spoorweg-Maatschappij between Boxtel (Netherlands) and Wesel. The Boxteler Bahn was largely destroyed west of Xanten in 1945, so that no more traffic was possible, the line was officially closed in 1947. The station building from 1902 was demolished in 1978.
Investments
Today the station only has one platform track and two sidings. The railroad track is barrier-free.
The station building from the opening year was destroyed in 1945. In 1955 the current single-storey building was erected, which has been privately owned since 2012. There is a small inn in the building.
There is also a bicycle station in the vicinity where bicycle boxes can be rented.
There is also a taxi office and a ticket machine here.
The former freight transport facilities to the north have now been dismantled.
traffic
It runs the regional train The Lower Rhine (RB 31) (Xanten- Moers - Duisburg ), which since 2009 by the North Western Railway (NWB) with diesel railcars of type LINT 41 is operated in single and double traction.
In local road transport there is an express bus connection (SB 6) with the district town of Wesel , as well as other bus routes to Kleve (44, via Kalkar ), Geldern (36, via Sonsbeck ), Uedem (43), Rheinberg (65), Alpen (41) as well as city buses that connect the individual districts of Xanten with the center.
The tariff of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr applies to all public transport and the NRW tariff applies to all tariff areas .
Long- distance bus connections now also frequent the Xanten train station B. to Berlin, Bielefeld, Erfurt , Halle, Leipzig, Magdeburg, Paderborn , Rostock, Warendorf , Vienna, Zurich.
| line | Train run | Tact |
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| RB 31 |
The Lower Rhine : Xanten - Alpen - Millingen (near Rheinberg) - Rheinberg (Rheinl) - Moers - Trompet - Rumeln - Rheinhausen - Duisburg Hbf Status: timetable change December 2015 |
60 min |
literature
- Hans-Paul Höpfner: Railways. Your story on the Lower Rhine. Mercator Verlag, Duisburg 1986, ISBN 3-87463-132-X .
Web links
- Long-distance bus destinations from Xanten train station
- Information about rail cycling from Xanten train station towards Kleve on the former railway line
- Newspaper report on the sale of the station building, July 2012; Rheinische Post
- Status report of the Xanten train station, March 2015, Rheinische Post
- Xanten in the NRWbahnarchiv
Individual evidence
- ↑ Querying the course book route 498 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Gerard Clemens: The Boxteler Bahn. In: bahn-in-haan.de. March 3, 2013, accessed September 24, 2015 .
- ^ Richard Lucas-Thomas: Xanten: Xanten station sold. In: rp-online.de. July 10, 2012, accessed September 24, 2015 .
- ↑ Bicycle boxes for rent at the train station. In: xanten.de. Retrieved September 24, 2015 .
- ↑ To rent out bicycle boxes at the train station for long-term users. In: xanten.de. Retrieved September 24, 2015 .